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The Ducks cut their training-camp roster to 45 players Thursday by assigning seven to their American League affiliate, the Iowa Chops, and returning three to junior hockey.

Of the players remaining in camp, four are injured, including journeyman left wing Josh Green, who is sidelined by a groin problem. Left wing T.J. Trevelyan remains on the shelf because of a concussion, while left wing Ryan Donally has a hip issue. Left wing Matt Beleskey, meanwhile, continues to recover from off-season shoulder surgery.

Center Maxime Macenauer was on the ice Thursday after having been idled earlier in camp by a bruised shoulder.

The roster also includes veteran defenseman Mathieu Schneider, who remains out of camp while awaiting a trade. The Ducks are attempting to move Schneider, and his $5.625 million salary-cap hit, in order to get beneath the NHL's $56.7 million salary limit before their Oct. 9 regular-season opener against the San Jose Sharks. The Ducks are currently a shade more than $3 million above the ceiling.

Among the players assigned were defensemen Eric Regan and Stu Bickel, and left wing Eric Tangradi, each of whom appeared in Wednesday night's exhibition opener, a 6-4 victory over San Jose at Honda Center.

Rookie winger Bobby Ryan, whom the Ducks are counting on to play among their top-six forwards this season, got off the a flying start in Wednesday night's exhibition opener against the San JoseSharks at Honda Center.

Ryan scored the first goal of the season, just 3:45 into the first period. A Sharks turnover in neutral ice enabled Ryan Dingle to feed Ryan on the right side, and Ryan blew a wrist shot from the top of the faceoff circle past San Jose goaltender Thomas Greiss.

Brian Sutherby had the first Ducks fight of the exhibition season, a first-period go with BradStaubitz of the Sharks.

Perhaps of note, given the fact that Coach Randy Carlyle doesn't plan to announce the Ducks' captain until shortly before the Oct. 9 regular-season opener at San Jose, is the fact that defenseman Scott Niedermayer and wingers Brad May and Travis Moen wore ‘A's' on their jerseys.

Niedermayer was the Ducks' captain from 2005-07 but surrendered that distinction when he sat out the beginning of last season. Defenseman Chris Pronger, the Ducks captain last season, did not play Wednesday night.

Goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere, who is scheduled to start, defenseman Scott Niedermayer and forwards Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry highlight the Ducks' roster scheduled to suit up for Wednesday night's NHL exhibition opener against the San Jose Sharks at Honda Center.

Getzlaf and Perry, who have been linemates almost exclusively since reporting to the club's rookie camp in 2005, were on different units during Wednesday's morning skate -- Getzlaf with rookie BobbyRyan and Ryan Dingle, and Perry with Joakim Lindstrom and Eric Tangradi.

The importance of line combinations at this point, of course, is virtually nil -- as evidenced by the fact that Coach Randy Carlyle wasn't even in attendance. Carlyle was working with another group of Ducks players at Anaheim Ice, while assistant coaches Dave Farrish and Newell Brown ran the show at Honda Center.